2. Ouch. Sydney got hot yesterday, almost the hottest on record. Temperatures in the western suburb of Penrith hit 47.3C at 3pm and the Bureau of Meteorology had to scrape up a data point from a decommissioned weather station in Richmond to find a 47.8C in 1939. Temperatures blew past 40C in the city but should peak at 33C today and cool further throughout the week. With a chance of rain, even.

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4. Meanwhile, Wolff, who has a noted history of being economical with the truth in his works, admits even he’s not sure everything he’s written in “Fire & Fury” is true. He also claims Trump might withhold a vital post-Brexit trade deal with the UK if he doesn’t receive an invitation to Prince Harry and Meghan Markel’s wedding, and that Trump views the Queen as a reality TV rival.

5. England will finish its calamitous Ashes tour in fitting style today, battling to avoid a humiliating innings defeat at the SCG. It needs 211 to make Australia bat again, on a pitch where England leg-spinner Mason Crane returned 1-193 in his first match, the worst figures ever for an English debutant. Nathan Lyon is all like:

6. The Australian Open starts in a week and everyone’s watching Nick Kyrgios’ knee. The 22-year-old blew away American Ryan Harrison 6-4, 6-2 to win the Brisbane International, his first ATP title in Australia. But Kyrgios had his left knee taped for all four matches of the tournament and claimed during yesterday’s final that it “could keep (him) out of the Australian Open”.

7. This week’s cryptocurrency rising star has been waiting in the wings for longer than expected. Remember Dogecoin, created on the back of the shiba inu meme as a joke by former Sydney marketing manager Jackson Palmer? No? Well, it reached a market cap of $US2 billion. “I think it says a lot about the state of the cryptocurrency space in general that a currency with a dog on it which hasn’t released a software update in over 2 years has a $US1B+ market cap,” Palmer told cryptocurrency watcher CoinDesk.

9. This year’s Consumer Electronics Show is under way in Las Vegas, and you’ll be swamped this week with news of all the gadgets, startups and software heading your way in 2018. But the biggest battle will the fight for voice search supremacy. CES was a massive push-start for Alexa last year, but there are signs Google wants to dominate its rival at this year’s show.